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Stories :: Accepted date: February 2018

Updated: 19 Jan, 09:2609:26

Engineer Andrew Kitaka says local contractors usually fail to complete road projects on time and sometimes deliver roads which are of poor quality. He says this has forced the city Authority to opt for foreign contractors who are more costly.

The suspects identified as Godie Kasenya and Sam Mugula, also known as Nicky, were picked up by the Flying Squad operatives from Kawanda, a Kampala suburb. The arrest follows the disappearance of eight-year-old Joel Bwambale who was kidnapped from Katooke in Nansana Municipality a few weeks ago and later released after the parents paid a ransom of four million Shillings. On Tuesday, the body of Susan Magara, a 28-year-old who went missing on February 7, was found dumped near Kajjansi in Wakiso district. Magara is believed to have been killed by the same people who kidnapped her and asked her parents for a ransom of up to 3.7 billion Shillings.

The Silverbacks who are drawn in Group B alongside Rwanda, Nigeria and Mali, stand in the second position after Nigeria. Uganda stopped Rwanda, but lost to Nigeria and Mali in the games played from 25th to 27th February in Mali. They are, however, in the second position due to point differences.

Parliaments Public Accounts Committee PAC has today summoned the Chief Government Valuer Robert Kermundo to appear and explain inconsistencies in the Ministry of Energys payment of Project Affected Persons PAPs to pave way for construction of the oil refinery.

The abattoir currently located in Ntungamos Eastern Division is set to be relocated to the Western division where the municipal authorities say there is enough land to host a better and modern slaughterhouse.

During one of the meetings with the president, Magara says he had asked for permission to give the kidnappers what they wanted. On Friday, Magara secretly handed over a huge sum of money to the kidnappers without informing anyone and waited patiently for the daughter to be released so he could surprise the family.

In order to eliminate these criminals, we may have to look at two other measures: capturing the palm-print of everybody and the DNA of everybody. Some elements try to argue that capturing the DNA of people is not democratic. I cannot understand why it is not democratic.

The UN World Food Programme WFP will receive USD 500,000 for food and nutrition support for refugees, while the UN Population Fund UNFPA will receive USD 500,000 for the provision of life-saving sexual and reproductive health services including emergency obstetrical and newborn care and response to gender-based violence.

The police Criminal Investigations Directorate and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions DPP spent over 500,000 US Dollars to investigate and prosecute cases related to the July 11, 2010 twin bombings in Kampala.

The Programme, implemented under the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development had an initial budget of 265 billion Shillings over a period of five years. The money was advanced to the Youth Interest Groups to harness their social-economic potential and increase self-employment opportunities and income levels.

In 2017 the district council resolved that all primary head teachers in government schools should ensure that over 80 percent of their candidates pass PLE and those who fail to hit the target must be demoted. But several schools failed to hit the target and registered over 20 percent failures in the examinations.

Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate James Eremye adjourned the case after Abdul Salim Waiswa, a lawyer representing Uganda Communications Commission failed to turn up for the hearing this morning. Waiswa asked State Prosecutor Jonathan Kamugisha to represent him in the matter.

A report by Makerere University Economic Policy Research Centre EPRC has revealed that tobacco taxes in Uganda are too low to dissuade people from smoking. Uganda signed and ratified World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control WHOFCTC in 2007 which recommends that excise tax should make up 75 percent of the retail price. But the report reveals that in Uganda, excise taxes make up 31 percent of the retail price for cigarettes.

Auditor General John Muwanga reveals anomalies in the compensation process ranging from low compensations, over and under valuation as well as inappropriate rates. This is according to the value for money audit report on the compensation of Project Affected Persons under the refinery project for the year ended December 2017.

The Uganda Police has pledged 100 million shillings as a reward to anyone who can identify the people behind the kidnap and eventual killing of Susan Magara, an accountant whose body was found dumped in Kigo, Wakiso this morning.

Makerere University has instituted proceedings to look into Dr Swizen Kyomuhendo, a senior lecturer mentioned in the alleged sexual harassment of female students. This comes just a day after a story appeared on NBS TV in which Dr Kyomuhendo, who teaches in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration SWSA, is seen luring one of his students to a lodge to have some fun. In the story, the victim claimed that the lecturer had promised to adjust her marks if she cooperated.

The practice involves an agreement whereby a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person and surrenders all parenting rights and responsibilities upon childbirth. Several refer to it as the practice of renting wombs and selling eggs and sperms.

Officials from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development have been probed over a 1.2 billion Shillings loss in fines to a contractor following delays to compensate Project Affected Persons PAPs, to pave way for construction of the oil refinery.